Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Thompson Norriswas a popular American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Her stories appeared in the Atlantic, The American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion, and she wrote 93 novels, many of which were best sellers. She used her fiction to promote values including the sanctity of marriage, the nobility of motherhood,...
inspirational change past
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
giving grace attention
For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.
secret position
Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
christian religious views
We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.
children way taught
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.
happiness book long
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
loss order grace
If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.
motivational prayer thinking
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
conflict conformity free individual liberty necessary social
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary
inspirational goal vision
You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.
joy taught masters
I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?